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RE: Lintian report that man pages are not compressed with --best



On Mon, 1 May 2000, Darren Benham wrote:

> Is --best the same as -9?

Yes. From the manual page of gzip:

...
                            where  -1  or  --fast  indicates  the
              fastest  compression  method (less compression) and
              -9 or  --best  indicates  the  slowest  compression
              method (best compression).
...

cu,
Adrian

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